The Viennese custom of naming waltzes after ball festivals and ball festivals after waltzes goes back to Lanner, Strauss I and their contemporaries. Strauss II elevated this practice to an art, for Lehár it became a welcome source of popularity and income. When Princess Pauline Metternich planned a "gold and silver" redoubt after a "white" and a "red-white" for carnival in 1902, she revived the old custom. She commissioned the young conductor of the "26er", Franz Lehár, to do it. On Thursday, January 27, 1902, the redoubt took place. According to tradition, the waltz was always played first as a concert piece, with an introduction and a coda. When the conducting composer had accepted the applause and the Archduke had completed the lap of honor with the Princess, the general dance began. It was different with the “Gold and Silver” redoubt. «Hardly the first theme sounded when the people started chattering, laughing and dancing. There was a few hand claps at the end - they asked for a repeat - and that was all». Nobody could have guessed that the defeat of the evening would become a worldwide success. Least of all the composer himself. But he created the symbolic and musical transition from the golden to the silver age of the operetta.
Wednesday, 21. May 202519.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Concert in Vienna
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Etwas Kleines / Polka française op. 190 Johann Strauss II : Explosions Polka op. 43 Johann Strauss II : Accelerations / Waltz op. 234 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Orpheus Quadrille op. 236 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Johann Strauss II : Electromagnetic Polka op. 110 Johann Strauss II : Perpetual Motion / Musical joke op. 257 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
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